Daniel W. Cohen

Dan advises major insurance companies on coverage issues involving multiple lines of insurance coverage, including environmental, pollution, general liability, professional liability, cyber liability, and directors and officers policies. In recent months, Dan’s focus has included insurance issues related to COVID-19, including issues relating to asserted business interruption coverage, property damage, remediation expenses, and civil authority coverages. Dan’s practice includes not only primary policies, but also program, excess, and umbrella coverages. He is frequently engaged to analyze complicated coverage issues involving such policies and to advise clients regarding coverage determinations and strategies for resolving disputes. Dan has litigated matters involving coverage disputes and bad faith to judgment and through appeal. He also maintains an active practice representing insurance brokers in professional liability matters and litigating a broad range of business disputes in Connecticut and New York courts.

Dan earned his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to becoming an attorney, Dan worked on Capitol Hill and in educational fundraising.

• Represented an insurer in a D&O coverage action, winning summary judgment in New York federal court on “related claims” issues and application of an insolvency exclusion.
• Successfully represented an insurer in the Seattle Big Dig/State Route 99 construction litigation.
• Successfully represented a brokerage in a major dispute involving requirements of contractual provisions.
• Secured summary judgment and victory on appeal in an environmental liability coverage dispute regarding a matter of first impression in New York.
• Representing an insurer in litigation over coverage after the insured settled with a claimant for an eight-figure amount.
• Represented an insurer in a declaratory judgment case in which the insured sought insurance coverage for claims made by thousands of claimants infected with viruses from blood factor products.
• Represented an insurer in disputing the reasonableness of a $100 million settlement in a securities fraud case.
• Represented a brokerage when an insured alleged in court that the brokerage had negligently obtained insurance coverage.
• Represented a media company in a securities action.

• Legal 500 United States: Insurance: Advice to Insurers (2025)
• Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Insurance Law (2025-2026)